WASHINGTON - The global coronavirus pandemic has sparked an economic "crisis like no other," sending world GDP plunging 4.9 percent this year and wiping out trillion over two years, the IMF said Wednesday.
WASHINGTON - The Republican-controlled US Senate voted early on Wednesday on party lines to approve the rules for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial, rejecting Democratic efforts to obtain evidence and ensure witnesses are heard.
WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump stepped up his attacks on House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday, saying "she's very bad for our country" and "doesn't mind human trafficking" because she opposes his long-promised wall along the US-Mexico border.
Visitors gather at the booth of SABIC during a plastics and rubber industry exhibition in Shanghai. [Photo provided to China Daily]
WASHINGTON - A clinical trial has begun in the United States to evaluate whether anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, given together with antibiotic azithromycin, can prevent COVID-19 hospitalization and death, according to a release published by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Thursday.
Visitors look at display models of the Huawei Mate 20 smartphone series at a launch event in London. Visitors look at display models of the Huawei Mate 20 smartphone series at a launch event in London.
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Visitors take photos of the cherry blossoms in a scenic spot in Nanning city, South China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Feb 21, 2019. [photo/IC]
WASHINGTON - The United States intends to nominate Mauricio J. Claver-Carone, a senior White House official, to head the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the US Treasury Department announced on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON - The White House said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump has responded to a new letter from Kim Jong-un, top leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), and Trump's letter will be delivered "shortly."
WASHINGTON - The Trump administration is considering imposing some US sanctions on Venezuela's vital oil sector in response to Sunday's election of a constitutional super-body that Washington has already denounced as a "sham" vote, US officials said.